White spaces in Add/Remove Programs

[GRL]

My problem is that there are many white spaces between two groups of
programs in "Add/Remove Programs". I've found some solutions to this
problem, and I followed them: I've cleaned the registry using many registry
cleaners, I've reset all the negative values found in the registry keys
"DisplayIcon" and "DefaultIcon", but everything was unuseless, because the
problem remains. Besides, the last action (resetting all the negative values
in the registry key "DefaultIcon") caused the disappearing of some icons in
the start menu (the one of Control Panel, for example) and in Explorer (the
one associated with .txt files, for example). So, now I've got two problems,
instead solving one of them.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
Giovanni

 

[TaurArian]

line 226, "Remove the White Space from Add or Remove":
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

Add or Remove - White Space
This is generally due to the DisplayIcon having a negative number. From here you can
either remove the negative number or remove the last application listed:
Start/Run/Regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{}

"How to Manually Remove Programs from the Add or Remove Programs Tool"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314481


Note you can save the registry key first by:
On the File menu, click Export.
In the File name box, type SaveKey, and then click Save.
Or create a system restore point prior to editing.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;322756
HOW TO: Back Up, Edit, and Restore the Registry in Windows XP
Disclaimer: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to
reinstall your operating system. Use the information provided at your own risk.




NTREGOPT NT Registry Optimizer
ERUNT The Emergency Recovery Utility NT
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

 

[Kelly]

You weren't supposed to change every negative icon in the registry. Your
target icon setting to be altered was the last program listed before the
white space began.

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[GRL]

Already done. No effects.
Thank you anyway.
Giovanni

 

[GRL]

OK! The white spaces disappeared removing the last program before the spaces
in Add/Remove. But before I zeroed all the negative values of DefaultIcon in
the registry. I know, I was stupid, but now, as I said, some icons in the
start menu and in explorer lack. Can you help me?
Thank you.
Giovanni

 

[Kelly]

1. Glad you have the white space removed. Which program was it?
2. Never use Registry Cleaners.
3. Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
<Program name>

In the right-pane, create a new REG SZ (String) value named
'DisplayIcon' and assign it's value to the full path where the program's
exe file resides. [example: C:\Program Files\AIM95\aim.exe]

Also:

Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 appwiz.cpl
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i shell32
--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

 

[GRL]

Thank you again.
1: I don't remember the exact name of the removed program (it was an almost
never used program), something like "media recorder";
2/3: my problem is the disappearance of the icons of control panel,
documents, etc. in the start menu.
Giovanni

1. Glad you have the white space removed. Which program was it?
2. Never use Registry Cleaners.
3. Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
<Program name>

In the right-pane, create a new REG SZ (String) value named
'DisplayIcon' and assign it's value to the full path where the program's
exe file resides. [example: C:\Program Files\AIM95\aim.exe]

Also:

Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 appwiz.cpl
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i shell32
--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

OK! The white spaces disappeared removing the last program before the
spaces
in Add/Remove. But before I zeroed all the negative values of DefaultIcon
in
the registry. I know, I was stupid, but now, as I said, some icons in the
start menu and in explorer lack. Can you help me?
Thank you.
Giovanni
because
the

 

[Kelly]

Most welcome and no problem. As per your current issue, this would need to
be handled manually.

If you have the chance: to wherever you gained your previous info, please
post that this is not the proper way of dealing with it. That asked, which
exact icons are missing?

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Thank you again.
1: I don't remember the exact name of the removed program (it was an
almost
never used program), something like "media recorder";
2/3: my problem is the disappearance of the icons of control panel,
documents, etc. in the start menu.
Giovanni

1. Glad you have the white space removed. Which program was it?
2. Never use Registry Cleaners.
3. Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
<Program name>

In the right-pane, create a new REG SZ (String) value named
'DisplayIcon' and assign it's value to the full path where the program's
exe file resides. [example: C:\Program Files\AIM95\aim.exe]

Also:

Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 appwiz.cpl
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i shell32
--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

OK! The white spaces disappeared removing the last program before the
spaces
in Add/Remove. But before I zeroed all the negative values of DefaultIcon
in
the registry. I know, I was stupid, but now, as I said, some icons in the
start menu and in explorer lack. Can you help me?
Thank you.
Giovanni
"Kelly" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
You weren't supposed to change every negative icon in the registry. Your
target icon setting to be altered was the last program listed before the
white space began.

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com



My problem is that there are many white spaces between two groups of
programs in "Add/Remove Programs". I've found some solutions to this
problem, and I followed them: I've cleaned the registry using many
registry
cleaners, I've reset all the negative values found in the registry keys
"DisplayIcon" and "DefaultIcon", but everything was unuseless, because
the
problem remains. Besides, the last action (resetting all the
negative
values
in the registry key "DefaultIcon") caused the disappearing of some
icons
in
the start menu (the one of Control Panel, for example) and in Explorer
(the
one associated with .txt files, for example). So, now I've got two
problems,
instead solving one of them.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
Giovanni

 

[GRL]

Thank you for the third time, I have to say.
With my very stupid zeroing of all the DefaultIcon values, I caused a real
damage.
Anyway, I found a free program ("Activicon") which let me restore the icons.
Giovanni

Most welcome and no problem. As per your current issue, this would need to
be handled manually.

If you have the chance: to wherever you gained your previous info, please
post that this is not the proper way of dealing with it. That asked, which
exact icons are missing?

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Thank you again.
1: I don't remember the exact name of the removed program (it was an
almost
never used program), something like "media recorder";
2/3: my problem is the disappearance of the icons of control panel,
documents, etc. in the start menu.
Giovanni

1. Glad you have the white space removed. Which program was it?
2. Never use Registry Cleaners.
3. Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
<Program name>

In the right-pane, create a new REG SZ (String) value named
'DisplayIcon' and assign it's value to the full path where the program's
exe file resides. [example: C:\Program Files\AIM95\aim.exe]

Also:

Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 appwiz.cpl
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i shell32
--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com



OK! The white spaces disappeared removing the last program before the
spaces
in Add/Remove. But before I zeroed all the negative values of DefaultIcon
in
the registry. I know, I was stupid, but now, as I said, some icons in the
start menu and in explorer lack. Can you help me?
Thank you.
Giovanni
"Kelly" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
You weren't supposed to change every negative icon in the registry. Your
target icon setting to be altered was the last program listed before the
white space began.

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com



My problem is that there are many white spaces between two groups of
programs in "Add/Remove Programs". I've found some solutions to this
problem, and I followed them: I've cleaned the registry using many
registry
cleaners, I've reset all the negative values found in the registry keys
"DisplayIcon" and "DefaultIcon", but everything was unuseless, because
the
problem remains. Besides, the last action (resetting all the
negative
values
in the registry key "DefaultIcon") caused the disappearing of some
icons
in
the start menu (the one of Control Panel, for example) and in Explorer
(the
one associated with .txt files, for example). So, now I've got two
problems,
instead solving one of them.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
Giovanni

 

[Kelly]

Great, glad you have it all sorted now. )

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Thank you for the third time, I have to say.
With my very stupid zeroing of all the DefaultIcon values, I caused a real
damage.
Anyway, I found a free program ("Activicon") which let me restore the
icons.
Giovanni

Most welcome and no problem. As per your current issue, this would need to
be handled manually.

If you have the chance: to wherever you gained your previous info, please
post that this is not the proper way of dealing with it. That asked, which
exact icons are missing?

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com

Thank you again.
1: I don't remember the exact name of the removed program (it was an
almost
never used program), something like "media recorder";
2/3: my problem is the disappearance of the icons of control panel,
documents, etc. in the start menu.
Giovanni

"Kelly" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
1. Glad you have the white space removed. Which program was it?
2. Never use Registry Cleaners.
3. Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to:

HKEY LOCAL
MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
<Program name>

In the right-pane, create a new REG SZ (String) value named
'DisplayIcon' and assign it's value to the full path where the program's
exe file resides. [example: C:\Program Files\AIM95\aim.exe]

Also:

Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 appwiz.cpl
Go to Start/Run and type in: regsvr32 /i shell32
--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com



OK! The white spaces disappeared removing the last program before
the
spaces
in Add/Remove. But before I zeroed all the negative values of
DefaultIcon
in
the registry. I know, I was stupid, but now, as I said, some icons
in
the
start menu and in explorer lack. Can you help me?
Thank you.
Giovanni
"Kelly" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel messaggio
You weren't supposed to change every negative icon in the registry.
Your
target icon setting to be altered was the last program listed
before
the
white space began.

--

All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com



My problem is that there are many white spaces between two groups of
programs in "Add/Remove Programs". I've found some solutions to this
problem, and I followed them: I've cleaned the registry using
many
registry
cleaners, I've reset all the negative values found in the
registry
keys
"DisplayIcon" and "DefaultIcon", but everything was unuseless,
because
the
problem remains. Besides, the last action (resetting all the
negative
values
in the registry key "DefaultIcon") caused the disappearing of
some
icons
in
the start menu (the one of Control Panel, for example) and in
Explorer
(the
one associated with .txt files, for example). So, now I've got
two
problems,
instead solving one of them.
Can someone help me?
Thanks.
Giovanni